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lizzemea · 2 years

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lucydorling1980 · 2 years

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Today is international PTSD awareness day. I know quite a bit about PTSD as I was diagnosed with it 4 years ago. I’ve read some very interesting research notably the book “The Body Keeps The Score” by Bessel Van Der Kolk which explains how your brain chemistry changes due to trauma. The third slide here is the worst part for me, I was triggered by something recently which made me far more jumpy and on a high state of alert and very anxious. I’ve had CBT which has helped enormously, but it’s not something you “get over” you have to learn to live with it. @ptsd_uk #ptsdawareness #ptsdawarenessday #internationalptsdawarenessday #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthmatters #mentalhealthrecovery #ptsdrecovery #ptsd #ptsdisadailybattle (at Witney, Oxfordshire) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfUZE3XLyFU/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#ptsdawareness #ptsdawarenessday #internationalptsdawarenessday #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthmatters #mentalhealthrecovery #ptsdrecovery #ptsd #ptsdisadailybattle

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rfarrokh · 3 years

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And Complex PTSD also exists❣️🤟🏼💖❤️ #ptsd #ptsdrecovery #ptsdsurvivor #ptsdwarrior #ptsdsupport #ptsdsucks #ptsdtherapy #ptsdhelp #ptsdhealing #ptsdisreal #ptsdisadailybattle #complexptsd #posttraumatic #posttraumaticgrowth #posttraumaticstressdisorder #complexposttraumaticstressdisorder #rachaelsroadtorecovery #innerchildtherapy #innerchildcomingout #innerchildwork #innerchild #innerchildhealing #traumahealing #traumaresponse #traumarecovery #traumasurvivors #traumasupport #traumasurvivor #traumainformedcare #traumainformed https://www.instagram.com/p/CQ-fZ2JJJ1q/?utm_medium=tumblr

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battle22365-blog · 4 years

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Wyt #PTSD #PTSDawareness #ptsdrecovery #ptsdsucks #ptsdservicedog #ptsdwarrior #ptsdsupport #ptsdsurvivor #ptsddog #ptsdeffectsthewholefamily #ptsdrecoverypositivity #ptsdservicedogintraining #ptsdhelp #ptsdlife #ptsdawarness #ptsdisadailybattle #ptsdisreal #ptsddogsareawesome #ptsddogs #PTSDTherapy #ptsdalchemy #ptsdsymptoms #ptsdveteran #ptsdbreakthesilence #ptsdknowledge #veteransuicideawareness #veteransuicide #veteransuicideprevention #veteransuicideawarenessandprevention #veteransuicides https://www.instagram.com/p/B7CPmkEJgNQ/?igshid=aezldfju0tg1

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diaryofanne-xiety · 5 years

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Destiny Thief

I've often used the phrase "He has taken everything from me." when explaining my experience of sexual assault. The standard responses include "That's impossible" , "Take your power back" and sometimes even just a flat out "Huh?"

The truth is that your power is not something to be retrieved, like a borrowed lawn mower or book. In fact my power wasn't removed from me, but rather it was irrevocably turned off. Or maybe I turned it off because the only way I would be able to make it through what was happening to me, was to be in sleep mode or switched off entirely. But, my friends, I soon found out that I couldn't just switch back on again and carry on. I was basically like every laptop that got restarted after the Windows 365 update. Whilst my body was in sleep mode, my defences and shields were down, and the demons overpowered me and began to occupy my mental space. I can't even evict them because THEY ARE ME!

So back to the point of this post: You may ask me "So what did he take from you then?" Here goes nothing:

Simply put, he stole my sense of security. How could a man who sympathized with me about my previous traumas, a man who embraced me on difficult days, and said the most wonderful things to and about me, turn around and become aggressive toward me, disregard my protests and add to my traumas? Then again most assaults are inflicted by the people we're supposed to trust. Because of him I look over my shoulder all the time. I shy away from any physical contact with others. I fear that I will never be able to be physically intimate with a man. He has taken my dreams of companionship and a family life.

Secondly he stole my self esteem. He took something beautiful and made it hideous. He took a deeply spiritual bond and severed it, unfortunately severing a part of me too; the part of me that believed that a woman's voice matters. The part of me that thought that I had agency over my body and my life. Now neither feels sacred anymore. Now my body feels like someone else's temple, taken by force, ransacked and left as an empty shell for anyone to come and go as they please. If my life is a train, my body, mind and spirit are the tracks whose steel and beams have been stripped and stolen by a thief, a Destiny thief. Even if I could start the train's engine, it would be derailed almost immediately. I might switch tracks, but the only thing that a train that has switched lanes can do is go to a new destination. Therefore, he has taken my life's trajectory away from me.

We all have certain core values that are loosely defined but engraved in our minds, that we don't think of, but that we use as a basis for most of the decisions we make. For instance mine are:

There is justice in the world

That a woman's voice matters, and

It is ok to live an unconventional life.

The day I was assaulted and the day my assault and harassment charges were ignored (events), I didn't try to change the outcome of the event (the way the assault made me feel or the possibility of taking further action). Instead I changed the core value to:

There is no justice in this world, and

Women's voices don't matter.

So without knowing (or caring) he took my positive world view, my optimism and core values (that got me this far in my life) away from me. He might've reinforced the third core value, but not in a good way. Now my unconventional life is spent in and out of my therapist's office and on 5 different antidepressants just to make it through the day.

These, dear reader, are some of the things he stole from me, not my flat screen tv, my expensive jewellery or my early edition novel written by the obscure Brohnte sister. No, he took things that can never be replaced or retrieved, and he can't give them back to me even if he wanted to.

He took away my reasons to wake up in the morning, he took my sleep away, he took my self love away to the point where I dissociate frequently, and he took my livelihood away from me because I had to resign so as not to see his face anymore. All this and so much more that I am not brave enough to say out loud.

But, dears, he has stripped me bare (both literally and figuratively) and brought me to my knees. This is where I found my Maker, in the barren and desolate desert of the Middle East. A single tear fell from my eye to the dust, and an oasis sprouted up instantly. In the quiet and solitary nights, when my cruelest thoughts were my only companions, God's quiet whisper said: "Yes, he has taken everything from you, but your bare arms are ready to receive all My bounty. I will give you more reward than your mind can conceive." Yes the destination has changed and yes the train has changed, but He and I will steer it together.

God is great!

Man...not so much...

#anxiety #depression #ptsd #ptsdsurvivor #ptsd thoughts #ptsd recovery #ptsdisreal #ptsdisadailybattle

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imarygeorge-blog · 6 years

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Difficult Days

I am tired Tired of the battle Weary of the struggle Worn out Worn down by constant effort to stand And the song of the Cheap whore of suicide Like a moist siren, wooing me to sweet repose, Calls Ever calls In a deafening whisper That bellows Drowning out the voice of hope Denying and possible future With finality pronouncing My tomorrow D.O.A.

http://www.drjohnaking.com/ptsd-recovery/difficult-days/

By Dr John A. King

#drjohnaking #dealwithit #ptsdknowledge #complexptsd #ptsdlife #PTSDawareness #ptsdrecoveryart #cptsdrecovery #ptsdisadailybattle #stress2strength

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ptsdcollab · 6 years

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WHAT IS POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER ?

PTSD Video Minute

PTSD is your brain having a filing issue. It doesnt know how to process what you have experienced nor how to react to it.

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get the book -living well with ptsd

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http://www.drjohnaking.com/ptsd-recovery/what-is-post-traumatic-stress-disorder/

#dealwithit #dealwithitbook #drjohnaking #complexptsd #ptsdrecovery #ptsdsupport #ptsdisadailybattle #ptsdisreal #ptsdawarenes

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brysonmaverick-blog · 6 years

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Boys and men are also survivors of sexual abuse

Amber Stevenson writes for The Tennessean. In her article entitled : Boys and men are also survivors of sexual abuse states: There are many myths surrounding unwanted or abusive sexual experiences of boys and men. So what are the facts? • Girls and women can sexually abuse boys. These boys are not “lucky,” but exploited and harmed. • If a boy liked the attention he was getting or got sexually aroused during the abuse, this does not mean he wanted or liked being manipulated or abused, or that any part of what happened was his responsibility or fault. • Boys can be sexually abused by both straight men and gay men. Sexual abuse is the result of abusive behavior that takes advantage of a child’s vulnerability and is in no way related to the sexual orientation of the abusive person. • Whether he is gay, straight or bisexual, a boy’s sexual orientation is neither the cause nor the result of sexual abuse. By focusing on the abusive nature of sexual abuse rather than the sexual aspects of the interaction, it becomes easier to understand that sexual abuse has nothing to do with a boy’s sexual orientation. • Boys and men can be sexually abused and it has nothing to do with how masculine they are. • Most boys who are sexually abused will not go on to sexually abuse others Some researches say that 1 in 6 boys and men are sexually abused, personally I believe the figure is much higher…men just don’t report it, the culture of support is just not ..

http://www.drjohnaking.com/the-voice/boys-and-men-are-also-survivors-of-sexual-abuse/

By Dr John A. King

Give Them A Voice Foundation

#drjohnaking #dealwithit #dealwithitbook #ptsdsucks #poetry #PTSDawareness #ptsdawarenes #romanticpoetry #ptsdisadailybattle #stress2strenght

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thejasonhype-blog · 6 years

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Manipulation is a Metal Gauntlet Wrapped in a Velvet Glove.

Manipulation is a Metal Gauntlet Wrapped in a Velvet Glove. Manipulation by definition means : to change by artful or unfair means so as to serve one’s purpose or to control or play upon by artful, unfair, or insidious means especially to one’s own advantage It is insipid. Its a slow growing vine that wraps itself around your soul to the point that you don’t know which way is up. You lose sight of yourself, of who you are as a man, a husband a father. Layer that with the fact that y0u are dealing daily with PTSD as a result of what you have experienced. You become paralyzed. Panicky. Your inner compass is telling you something isn’t right, that what is being said and done to you, whispered to your children and friends is wrong. You didn’t do this to yourself, this was done to you. You had no control, you fight every day for control, you are striving and trying to be a better man – can’t they see that? Don’t they understand? Yet day after day, you feel constantly judged, misunderstood and misrepresented. You’re being told you are the issue, you are the problem. You live in dread to the response you will get to any word you say, any action you take, any question you ask. You try to be perfect, to get it right, to be who you are supposed to be….yet the monster on your back constantly robs you. You don’t know why they these people do it, you don’t understand what the purpose is behind their desire to break you. If you had cancer, they would have compassion. If you had lost a limb, they would be praising you. Because your scarring is not visible to the naked eye, they call you a liar and a fake. You stand there and you take it, beaten and struck by a metal gauntlet wrapped in a velvet glove worn by the very person who said that they would love you in sickness and in health. T.A.

http://www.drjohnaking.com/ptsd-recovery/manipulation-is-a-metal-gauntlet-wrapped-in-a-velvet-glove/

By Dr John A. King

#dealwithit #drjohnaking #ptsdwife #ptsdsucks #ptsdsurvivor #ptsdsupport #ptsdisadailybattle #ptsdisreal #ptsdawarenes #PTSDTherapy

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miketurnbull86-blog · 6 years

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Advice for life

Bryan Dyson Businessman, Former CEO of Coca-Cola Enterprises said in a speech: Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air. You name them – work, family, health, friends and spirit … and you’re keeping all of these in the air. You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the other four balls – family, health, friends and spirit – are made of glass. If you drop one of these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged or evenshattered. They will never be the same. You must understand that and strive for Balance in your life. How? Don’t undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others. It is because we are different that each of us is special. Don’t set your goals by what other people deem important. Only you know what is best for you. Don’t take for granted the things closest to your heart. Cling to them as you would your life, for without them, life is meaningless. Don’t let your life slip through your fingers by living in the past or for the future. By living your life one day at a time, you live all the days of your life. Don’t give up when you still have something to give. Nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying. Don’t be afraid to admit that you are less than perfect. It is this fragile thread that binds us to each together. Don’t be afraid to encounter risks. It is by taking chances that we learn how to be brave. Don’t shut love out of your life by saying it’s impossible to find time. The quickest way to receive love is to give; the fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly; and the best way to keep love is to give it wings! Don’t run through life so fast that you forget not only where you’ve been, but also where you are going. Don’t forget, a person’s greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated. Don’t be afraid to learn. Knowledge is weightless, a treasure you can always carry easily. Don’t use time or words carelessly. Neither can be retrieved. Life is not a race, but a journey to be savored each step of the way. Georgia Tech Sept. 6th, 1996 ——–

http://www.drjohnaking.com/ptsd-recovery/bryan-dyson-businessman-former-ceo-of-coca-cola-enterprises/

By Dr John A. King

#dealwithit #drjohnaking #ptsdwife #myptsd #ptsdknowledge #stress2strength #ptsdinspirational #cptsdrecovery #ptsdisreal #ptsdisadailybattle

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nicenerd1983-blog · 6 years

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Do Not Spoil What You Have

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; But remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

http://www.drjohnaking.com/ptsd-recovery/do-not-spoil-what-you-have/

By Dr John A. King

#drjohnaking #dealwithit #ptsdrecovery #ptsdsurvivor #ptsdknowledge #PTSDawareness #ptsdisadailybattle #stress2strength #facesofptsd #ptsdawarenes

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rfarrokh · 3 years

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Trauma responses are complicated and can have conflicting emotions 💖🤟🏼💘❤️💖 #posttraumaticgrowth #posttraumatic #posttraumaticstressdisorder #ptsd #ptsdrecovery #ptsdrelief #ptsdsurvivor #ptsdwarrior #ptsdsupport #ptsdsucks #ptsdtherapy #ptsdquotes #ptsdhealing #ptsdisreal #ptsdisadailybattle #complexptsd #complexptsdrecovery #complexptsdsurvivor #traumarecovery #traumahealing #traumasupport #traumasurvivor #traumasurvivors #traumainformed #traumainformedcare #traumaresponse #traumatherapy #rachaelsroadtorecovery #emdr #emdrtherapy https://www.instagram.com/p/CR8Nk24r1X-/?utm_medium=tumblr

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coolbyronsummers · 6 years

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Tuck Your Chin and Throw Punches

Struggles, opposition, failure—all of these make up the landscape of every day life, but Western society doesn’t deal well with them. The modern church does not have a doctrine of suffering, and modern business only honors the victory, it never celebrates the trials on the way to the victory. Now add the extra layer on top of all of this of illness or other adversity, and the benchmarks for success are very limited, if not nonexistent, for those who suffer. So what are we to do? How are we to measure our progress? Trying not to over-simplify things, but ask yourself the simple question, “Am I still in the fight?”, then measure your “success” by your answer. I don’t know what success means for others, but I know what it has come to mean to me: if I am still standing and if I am still fighting, I am being successful. I long for peace. I long to be free of the daily fray that is my lot in life, but until that day comes, till that shore is reached, I will rise every morning with expectation and a belief that if I don’t find peace and relief today, there is a great possibility and hope that I will tomorrow.

http://www.drjohnaking.com/ptsd-recovery/tuck-your-chin-and-throw-punches/

By Dr John A. King

#dealwithit #drjohnaking #myptsd #sexualabuse #ptsdlife #PTSDawareness #ptsdisadailybattle #ptsdinspirational #stress2strength #PTSDTherapy

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givethemavoice-blog · 6 years

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Domestic Violence Awareness Month – Can Men Be Abused by Women?

It is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, so here is a question for you : Can Men Be Abused by Women? You might ask; What does he mean by ‘abused’ ? Can a man be emotionally abused by a woman? Can a man be psychologically abused by a woman? Can a man be physically abused by a woman? Can a man be sexually abused or raped by a woman? Can a man be financially abused by a woman? Dr Tara J. Palmatier , PsyD believes so, in fact she is so committed helping men over come abuse by women that back in 2009 she started Shrink4Men because she recognized that men who are in abusive relationships in which the perpetrator is a woman do not have the same support resources as their female counterparts. So can men be abused? I’ll let a women do the talking… The answer to these questions is a resounding YES . Women are every bit as capable of being abusive as men. Women, by virtue of their sex, aren’t inherently more noble, peaceful, wise, better able to express their emotions or [insert supposed exclusive female virtue here] than men. To claim otherwise is sexist. That’s right. SEXIST. Women Are Just as Physically Abusive as Men High-conflict, abusive jerks seem to be fairly distributed between the sexes. In fact, women excel and surpass their male counterparts in psychological aggression (Muñoz-Rivas, et al., 2007). Women’s use of physical aggression is nearly equal to men (Parity, 2010). Aggression between partners is usually engage ..

http://www.drjohnaking.com/the-voice/domestic-violence-awareness-month-can-men-be-abused-by-women/

#drjohnaking #dealwithit #dealwithitbook #visualpoetry #ptsdlife #ptsdbreakthesilence #ptsdisadailybattle #ptsdinspirational #romanticpoetry #lovepoetry

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debrabackwood-blog · 6 years

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You make me feel like superman

You make me feel like superman Even when I’m not wearing my undies on the outside.

http://www.drjohnaking.com/ptsd-recovery/superman/

By Dr John A. King

#drjohnaking #dealwithit #cptsd #PTSDawareness #stress2strength #ptsdrecovery #ptsdawarenes #cptsdrecovery #ptsdisreal #ptsdisadailybattle

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creativelostconfused · 4 years

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My ride or die , the one that has been with me from the beginning, the one that lets me cry it out if i need it , the one that gives me chocolate when I’m sad and the one that tells me “nobody can hurt you anymore “ Thanks babe @dave.bye . . . . #tallhusbandshortwife #tallhusbandproblems #rideordielove #ptsdisadailybattle #lovemyhusband #lovealwayswins #okinawajapan #hello #militaryfamily #militarycpuple (at Okinawa, Okinawa) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCVl6N0pXrF/?igshid=wttnu2i02rud

#tallhusbandshortwife #tallhusbandproblems #rideordielove #ptsdisadailybattle #lovemyhusband #lovealwayswins #okinawajapan #hello #militaryfamily #militarycpuple

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